> > So aside from the should this be perf or not, the above is utter> > gibberish. Whoever came up with this nonsense?> > This is pretty much how softirqs (and before them bottom halves) work.> I believe Linus invented that scheme originally back in the early> days of Linux.

Nope - the softirq code was written by Alexey Kuznetsov and David S. Miller. But it's irrelevant, because:

> It's actually quite simple and works well

... as Peter said the last thing we want is yet another softirq vector.